Basketweave knit afghan with cuddly Bernat Blanket yarn ~ One for you and one for baby!

To celebrate their wedding, I recently sent this basketweave knit afghan with snowball poms as a gift to my nephew and his delightful lady. Although they traded vows barefooted in the tropical sand of Jamaica, their home is actually Midwest, USA, where winters can be coooold!

The bulky Bernat Blanket yarn will help this knit afghan to insulate the happy couple from the snowstorms expected this season.

While knitting this squooshy soft throw, I couldn't help but think how cosy it would be as a baby blanket. So I've included those directions here as well.

Main Pattern

Using main color, cast on 104 stitches. (Any multiple of 5 plus 4 stitches will work.)

Rows 1-3: Knit across

Rows 4-11: K2, *(K5, P5), Repeat from*, K2

Row 12-19: K2, *(P5, K5), Repeat from*, K2

Repeat rows 4-19 eight more times in main color.

Change to white.

Rows 148-155: Repeat rows 4-11.

Change to main color.

Rows 156-163: Repeat rows 12-19.

Change to white.

Rows 164-171: Repeat rows 4-11.

Change to main color.

Rows 172-179: Repeat rows 12-19.

Change to white.

Rows 180-187: Repeat rows 4-11.

Change to main color.

Rows 188-195: Repeat rows 12-19.

Rows 196-227: Repeat rows 4-19 two more times in main color.

Rows 228-230: Knit across.

Bind off loosely. Weave in ends.

How to make the pompoms

Naturally, I wanted to make snowball pompoms that would not fall apart in the washer. So I followed two of the suggestions on gbmaltese's youtube video. Can you believe hot glue and zip ties? If you use skinny zip ties, they can't even be felt in the density of yarn in a big pom.

For the basketweave knit afghan, Red Heart Super Saver proved to be a better choice for poms than Bernat Blanket yarn.

Curlicue corners for the basketweave knit baby blanket

For the baby blanket, I opted to crochet curlicue corners instead of poms.

The Bernat Baby Blanket yarn didn't give the corkscrew definition that I wanted for the curlicues, so I opted to use Red Heart Super Saver in white.

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